UW Welcomes New Leader of Department of Petroleum Engineering

September 19, 2022

Vamegh Rasouli

The College of Wyoming Board of Trustees has authorised the appointment of Vamegh Rasouli as the new LeNorman Endowed Leadership Chair of Petroleum Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Bodily Sciences.

Rasouli will become the initially-ever LeNorman Chair of the division.

“The competitive pool of candidates for this place speaks really well of our petroleum engineering method,” suggests Cameron Wright, UW Faculty of Engineering and Bodily Sciences Carrell Relatives Dean. “Vamegh Rasouli delivers an innovative, field-pushed solution to college student enhancement and a solid perception in teachers. We are thrilled with the course he will consider petroleum engineering at UW.”

Rasouli acquired his get started in the petroleum industry far more than 18 several years back as a whole-time educational school member as well as a geomechanics consulting engineer for Schlumberger, the biggest oil and gasoline service business throughout the world. This put together experience assisted encourage him to bridge the gap concerning academia and marketplace by bringing the sensible features of various petroleum engineering subject areas into the education and learning location. The outcomes developed the advancement of superior teaching and analysis laboratories and training of many learners with solid ties to the business in Australia and afterwards in the United States.

“My determination to the use of modern teaching methods and undertaking-centered program choices that are in line with industry demands will deliver the ideal preparing for our pupils in acquiring internship and work possibilities,” Rasouli claims.

In the course of his career, Rasouli has served as the deputy head and head of petroleum engineering packages in Iran, Australia and the United States. Given that July 2017, Rasouli has been the director of the Jodsaas Center for Engineering Management and Entrepreneurship in the College or university of Engineering and Mines at the College of North Dakota.

His investigation focuses on geomechanics characterization of unconventional reservoirs. He has delivered a range of industry shorter courses for Schlumberger’s Network of Excellence in Instruction application.

Right before his most current placement, Rasouli served as the division chair for the College of North Dakota’s petroleum engineering division. He acquired his Ph.D. in rock mechanics from Imperial University London in 2002.